Excerpt from Essays Ecclesiastical Biography, Vol. 1 of 2

I destined my contributions to the Edinburgh Review to that early forgetfulness which, with a very few remarkable exceptions, attends and befits the whole mass of the periodical literature of our age. But it has seemed good to certain American book sellers to publish, with my name, repeated editions of a series of those contributions. I am thus an author in my own despite.

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